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The Paperboy Whose Mind and Paper Round Expanded<\/strong><\/p>\n Lying in bed I got the acid from a 40 year old crusty named Malcolm No. 18\u2019s Alsatian dog really, really doesn\u2019t dig The Guardian\u2019s new colour supplement And then I\u2019m at the kitchen table <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Robert W Monk<\/strong> is a poet and writer trying to make some sense of the multiverse. His words and poems have appeared on various sites and blogs and in zines. He has also been known to perform live on occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Paperboy Whose Mind and Paper Round Expanded Lying in bed Hands like fuck cats\/rats Painting tiny squares on my brand new radio\/alarm clock With Tippex Very defined, very detailed The Devil’s in the detail. I got the acid from a 40 year old crusty named Malcolm Whose catchphrase was: \u201cI\u2019ve been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15107,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14755\/revisions\/15107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHands like fuck cats\/rats
\nPainting tiny squares on my brand new radio\/alarm clock
\nWith Tippex
\nVery defined, very detailed
\nThe Devil’s in the detail.<\/p>\n
\nWhose catchphrase was: \u201cI\u2019ve been on the edge, man\u201d
\n3 hours in, 5 hours to go
\n3 hours in, 5 hours to go
\nOh shit, I\u2019ve got a paper round to do.<\/p>\n
\nAnd the girl at No. 22 laughed at my trainers just last week.
\nMeanwhile the sky has opened up
\nAnd a cartoon God is looking down on me and pissing on me
\nBut it\u2019s just rain, isn\u2019t it? Isn\u2019t it just rain?
\nAnd this road is going on for miles and miles
\nI must be in Exeter by now… But why Exeter?
\nWhy not Mars? Or Mogadon? Or Burkino Faso?
\nHere comes another dog What\u2019s his problem? Why are they always so pissed off?
\nDon\u2019t want to hear it. I don\u2019t want to hear about it.
\nAnd the sound in my ears Is a constant crying and wailing of cattle
\nWith a drum machine and a 303 chipping in at inopportune moments.
\nTime…
\nHas…
\nFrozen Still<\/p>\n
\nAnd my mouth feels like I bit The head off a biro
\nOrange juice works? Orange juice? Orange juice?
\nNo.
\nAnd my Mum turns into a walking, talking Marshmallow Tree
\nAnd I’m on the bus to school for Double Maths and Philosophy
\nIt never rains but it pours
\nThese twisted knots of off-colour
\nSmiling gunk all over My head.
\nAll over My Head
\nAll over<\/p>\n